Paige had aspirations to become a doctor but had lined up a back-up career as a hairdresser at the salon where she worked part-time.

Her mum added: "Most people her age don't want to go out and work - I wouldn't have expected that from her but she wanted to.

"She never did anything that would disappoint you.

"It's hard to say that because everybody's got their bad points but it's hard to find something bad about Paige."

The family are in the process of setting up a charity in her honour, called Paige's Promise, which will teach youngsters self-defence and offer grief counselling for those who have lost loved ones in traumatic circumstances.

And Pamela now focuses a lot of her time focusing on Paige's Law - a campaign seeking tougher sentences and more room for victim's rights in the legal system.

This campaign comes after her sick killer was granted his appeal for a reduced sentence.

Pamela hopes others will remember her daughter in the same way that Paige would want them to remember.

She added: "She would be saying to everybody 'don't dwell on this, don't be sitting sad and being upset, don't put off your life.'

"She'd say 'just forget about the person that did this, make more time for family and don't argue as much - life is far too short.'"